Skydiving

SalixIncendium · Jul 27, 2019

In about six hours or so, I will be jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

As a Christmas present to my daughter, I bought skydiving gift certificates after my ex suggested that I buy concert tickets and take her to a concert (because I'm obedient like that).

I'll share the experience sometime after the jump.

Has anyone here ever been skydiving?

What made you decide to do it?

Tell us about your experience.

Notanumber · Jul 27, 2019

This looked scary enough for me never mind relying on a parachute.

Augustus · Jul 27, 2019

SalixIncendium said:
In about six hours or so, I will be jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

As a Christmas present to my daughter, I bought skydiving gift certificates after my ex suggested that I buy concert tickets take her to a concert (because I'm obedient like that).

I'll share the experience sometime after the jump.

Has anyone here ever been skydiving?

What made you decide to do it?

Tell us about your experience.

Great fun, you'll love it. It's quite surreal sitting on the edge of a plane with your feet hanging over the side. Can be quite cold up there too. Really tranquil when the 'chute opens though and you are floating down.

Make sure you wear thick trousers/shorts under your suit though as you can have quite a lot of pressure on your groin from the harness

SalixIncendium · Jul 27, 2019

Augustus said:
Great fun, you'll love it. It's quite surreal sitting on the edge of a plane with your feet hanging over the side. Can be quite cold up there too. Really tranquil when the 'chute opens though and you are floating down.

Make sure you wear thick trousers/shorts under your suit though as you can have quite a lot of pressure on your groin from the harness

Not sure how cold it will be given it's going to be 87F on the ground.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Jainarayan · Jul 27, 2019

Augustus said:
Great fun, you'll love it. It's quite surreal sitting on the edge of a plane with your feet hanging over the side. Can be quite cold up there too. Really tranquil when the 'chute opens though and you are floating down.

Make sure you wear thick trousers/shorts under your suit though as you can have quite a lot of pressure on your groin from the harness

If ever there was anything to dissuade me from skydiving it was that description.

Nope, nope... so much nope.

columbus · Jul 27, 2019

Many years ago.
It was great fun.
You never really look at clouds the same way when you've whizzed and drifted among them.

Hope you guys have as much fun as I did!
Tom

ChristineM · Jul 27, 2019

SalixIncendium said:
In about six hours or so, I will be jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

As a Christmas present to my daughter, I bought skydiving gift certificates after my ex suggested that I buy concert tickets and take her to a concert (because I'm obedient like that).

I'll share the experience sometime after the jump.

Has anyone here ever been skydiving?

What made you decide to do it?

Tell us about your experience.

I will try anything at least once, that includes skydiving. I went from abject terror to total piece with the world in about 10 seconds, an experience of a lifetime.

You should love it.

Would i do it again, probably i will take the kids in a few years, if they want.

SalixIncendium · Jul 27, 2019

And now my daughter texts me this morning telling me she busted her chin open last night and asked me if I think it's still okay to jump.

I told her she should be okay unless she plans on landing on her chin.

She decided instead of going to the ER for stitches to throw some super glue and a butterfly bandage on it so we can still jump.

The Hammer · Jul 27, 2019

SalixIncendium said:
In about six hours or so, I will be jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

As a Christmas present to my daughter, I bought skydiving gift certificates after my ex suggested that I buy concert tickets and take her to a concert (because I'm obedient like that).

I'll share the experience sometime after the jump.

Has anyone here ever been skydiving?

What made you decide to do it?

Tell us about your experience.

I have only ever done indoor skydiving, which is a blast, minus the fear of falling to one's death via airplane.

dybmh · Jul 27, 2019

SalixIncendium said:
And now my daughter texts me this morning telling me she busted her chin open last night and asked me if I think it's still okay to jump.

I told her she should be okay unless she plans on landing on her chin.

She decided instead of going to the ER for stitches to throw some super glue and a butterfly bandage on it so we can still jump.

Awesome.

Flame · Jul 27, 2019

This is one of the things on my bucket list to do.

Have fun Salix!

SalixIncendium · Jul 27, 2019

Flame said:
This is one of the things on my bucket list to do.

Have fun Salix!

This is the primary reason I'm doing this. It's been on my bucket list most of my life, and after today, I can scratch it off.

Thank you!

Kenny · Jul 27, 2019

SalixIncendium said:
In about six hours or so, I will be jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

As a Christmas present to my daughter, I bought skydiving gift certificates after my ex suggested that I buy concert tickets and take her to a concert (because I'm obedient like that).

I'll share the experience sometime after the jump.

Has anyone here ever been skydiving?

What made you decide to do it?

Tell us about your experience.

I sure did... did it as a wedding present to my soon-to-be son in law. He thought, "Maybe he rigged my 'chute"

There were about 6 of us.

Great experience. It was over so quick that I really didn't have time to absorb it all... maybe I'll do it one more time.

Shadow Wolf · Jul 27, 2019

I've always wanted to skydive, and I plan on doing it at least once soon (next year if not this year), while my knees are still able to withstand the landing impact.

SalixIncendium · Jul 27, 2019

Well, for the most part it was AMAZING!! My favorite part...the 59 seconds of free fall, and I free fell right through a cloud!!

I think perhaps they had my harnesses too tight, because I got a bit dizzy, short of breath, and nauseous shortly after the chute deployed.

They're emailing me video, but here are a couple of pics as I approached the ground...

And my beautiful daughter...

So this is officially scratched off my bucket list, but my daughter has such a great experience, she will be going again.

Skydiving

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः

Notanumber

A Free Man

Augustus

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SalixIncendium

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Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.

SalixIncendium

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The Hammer

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dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש

Flame

Beware

SalixIncendium

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Kenny

Face to face with my Father

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